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From: rob
Date: Fri, 08 Jan 1993 19:15

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I recently grabbed a copy of deliver v2.0P11 in the hopes that I could
use it to solve some problems and simplify a few things in our mail
system.  My current work involves moving an email system from our Convex
machines to a couple of Sun Sparc 1's running SunOS v4.1.1 which is a
BSD-flavor UNIX.

Unfortunately, there's little documentation with the package, and it's
definitely Xenix/SYSV-oriented.  The only example given that's useful
to me is one for sendmail where deliver can be executed by a user in
his/her .forward file.  I was hoping more for a local delivery program
that would handle everything sendmail ends up resolving to the LOCAL
mailer.  We're also looking to do away with .forward files altogether
to avoid the problem with continually having to mount a user's home 
directory from our mail servers.

Has anyone been able to use deliver in the way I hope to, or do they
know of another delivery agent program that can do properly locking
when writing to files?  Should I switch to Smail?

My apologies if this isn't very clear.  Any help/suggestions are 
appreciated.

Rob

-- 

Rob Vaughn, Fugitive Systems Guy
Mat. Sci. Center Computing, Cornell University
rob@msc.cornell.edu - rob@crnlmsc2.bitnet

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